Sentence examples for panic prejudice from inspiring English sources

There was something genuinely odd about being at a festival that was at least founded on principles such as generosity, a welcoming spirit and broadmindedness, while a referendum was won by voters who were persuaded by panic, prejudice, misinformation and outright lies, fed to them by politicians so blinded by their own personal ambition they didn't see the fire with which they were playing.

Standing up to the purveyors of panic, prejudice and pessimism".

The business secretary called those espousing anti-immigration rhetoric, "purveyors of panic, prejudice and pessimism".

But its studious purity — "You look like heck," Katy says to Sol at one point — can't survive its aura of moral panic and fearful prejudice.

They have prejudices, they panic, and they make mistakes.

The panic it evokes ramps up prejudice against minorities.

That loss of confidence is part bloody-mindedness, part frivolity, part panic, part bad temper, part prejudice.

Perhaps the most severe example of medical panic transforming itself into racial prejudice took place in 1899, when bubonic plague broke out in Hawaii.

Time and again over the last millennium, Roma movement has been more than purely cultural; it is as likely to be political, a series of displacements and exoduses triggered by prejudice and social panics.

To state, as Ellis does, that "Islamic militants" took advantage of post-Krakatoan spiritual panic is to repeat the prejudices of the colonial era: the natives are superstitious, and the Muslims are armed and dangerous outsiders.

But it isn't, and they – and their ministers – stumble to and from reorganisations, pushed by prejudice and pulled by panic.